The Theatre of Imagining

The Theatre of Imagining
Author: Ulla Kallenbach
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2018-07-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9783319763033

Download The Theatre of Imagining Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco’s The Killer (1957).

Offstage Space Narrative and the Theatre of the Imagination

Offstage Space  Narrative  and the Theatre of the Imagination
Author: W. Gruber
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780230105645

Download Offstage Space Narrative and the Theatre of the Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

Theater of the Mind

Theater of the Mind
Author: Neil Verma
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226853529

Download Theater of the Mind Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.

The Dramatic Imagination

The Dramatic Imagination
Author: Robert Edmond Jones
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780878301843

Download The Dramatic Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Imagining Medea

Imagining Medea
Author: Rena Fraden
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781469610979

Download Imagining Medea Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This ain't no Dreamgirls," Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still, Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into their own creativity, confronting the problems that landed them in prison, and taking control of their lives. Rena Fraden chronicles the collaborative process of transforming incarcerated women's stories into productions that incorporate Greek mythology, hip-hop music, dance, and autobiography. She captures a diverse array of voices, including those of Jones and other artists, the sheriff and prison guards, and, most vividly, the women themselves. Through compelling narrative and thoughtful commentary, Fraden investigates the Medea Project's blend of art and activism and considers its limits and possibilities for enacting social change. Rhodessa Jones is co-artistic director of the San Francisco-based performance company Cultural Odyssey and founder of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. An award-winning performer, she has taught at the Yale School of Drama and the New College of California.

Theatre and National Identity

Theatre and National Identity
Author: Nadine Holdsworth
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781134102273

Download Theatre and National Identity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-provoking essays that explore how playwrights, directors, theatre-makers, and performance artists have re-staged or re-worked a classic national play, performance, theatrical form, or theatre space in order to engage with conceptions of and questions around the nation, nationalism, and national identity in the contemporary moment, opening up new ways of thinking about or problematizing questions around the nation and national identity. Chapters ask how productions engage with a particular moment in the national psyche in the context of internationalism and globalization, for example, as well as how productions explore the interconnectivity of nations, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. They also explore questions relating to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. The volume highlights how theatre and performance has the ability to contest and unsettle ideas of the nation and national identity through the use of various sites, stagings, and performance strategies, and how contemporary theatres have portrayed national agendas and characters at a time of intense cultural flux and repositioning.

Theatre of Sound

Theatre of Sound
Author: Dermot Rattigan
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2002
Genre: Radio
ISBN: UOM:39015056426789

Download Theatre of Sound Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A study of radio drama

Politics and Theatre in Twentieth Century Europe

Politics and Theatre in Twentieth Century Europe
Author: M. Morgan
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781137370389

Download Politics and Theatre in Twentieth Century Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.